Andrew Wissink will be quick to tell you that although he is the leader of the Helios team, their success is a group effort.
The team of Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center engineers who created Helios has been recognized with an ALTie award from Army AL&T magazine. Although their graphic âTurbulent Modelâ was a 2020 award recipient, its backstory was a decade in the making.
âThe Helios team has been working on developing this software for the last 10 years,â Wissink said âIt is a combination of work on the part of the developers who built the software, but it is also evidence of the high performance computing power that the DOD has available â and how those capabilities came together to model and visualize rotorcraft phenomena we previously could only do through flight tests.â